“I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so ...” — Kehinde Wiley Quote

“I've jokingly painted some of my favorite collectors as black men, so there's a really great portrait of David LaChapelle, the photographer - my version of him - that's in his collection.”

“What is portraiture? It's choice. It's the ability to position your body in the world for the world to celebrate you on your own terms.”

“I'm about looking at each of those perceived menacing black men that you see in the streets all over the place, people that you oftentimes will walk past without assuming that they have the same humanity, fears that we all do.”

“I remember my mom had a big collection of copies of Saturday Evening Post magazines, and that was really my introduction to those great illustrators.”

“Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.”

“I've had a VHS collection for many, many years. But I would prefer to watch a movie in the best format possible.”